Joan Winstein, chief executive officer of Loan Strategies, Inc., has joined the governing board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, effective December 2008. She also consults for Financial Services Volunteer Corps, an arm of USAID that advises banks in developing countries to help them improve their lending outcomes. Prior to establishing Loan Strategies, a bank consulting practice specializing in helping banks manage their credit positions and realize greater value from their loan portfolios, she was a vice president and credit officer for Midwest corporate banking relationships at First Chicago (now JP Morgan Chase) and a relationship manager for coal, gas, electric, and nuclear utility clients at Bank of America.
"I am thrilled that Joan Winstein has joined the board," says governing board chair Cathryn Cronin Cranston. "Her business expertise, creative approach to the future, and commitment to the issues add needed new dimensions to the Board's skill set."
Press release: The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announces the time of the Doomsday Clock.
The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists move the hand from six minutes to five minutes to midnight.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will announce whether or not it is moving the minute hand of its famous Doomsday Clock at 1 p.m. EST/1800 GMT on January 10, 2012 in Washington, DC.
The Science and Security Board and the Governing Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, with participation from the Sponsors, will consider the implications of recent events and trends for the future of humanity at the annual Doomsday Clock Symposium.
Science and Security Board member Jonathan Tucker was a biosecurity expert whose unique gift was to provide sane, grounded analysis of issues and communicate these in accessible language to policymakers and the public.